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This 8 page paper compares the writings of Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes and W.E.B. DuBois and argues that DuBois's thinking was probably the most persuasive, and should have been followed more closely. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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the course that black society would take after the Civil War. This paper compares the four writers and their ideas, and argues that DuBoiss thinking was probably the most persuasive,
and should have been followed more closely. Discussion Washington, DuBois and Douglass are all 19th century figures while Langston Hughes is more modern. Today, scholars and activists discuss black history
and how it might have changed if todays leaders had followed DuBois instead of Washington. Booker T. Washingtons writings today seem condescending and somewhat na?ve. He writes, for example, that
although the "negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting ... for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him" (Washington). This is an insulting statement as it
implies that blacks have to be led by the hand and pushed to keep going or they wont get anywhere. Washington describes the Tuskegee Institute and its programs in
some detail, and outlines his belief in the way that blacks will finally become equal with whites: "Friction between the races will pass away in proportion as the black man,
by reason of his skill, intelligence, and character, can produce something that the white man wants or respects in the commercial world" (Washington). This, he says, is why Tuskegee teaches
industrial training (Washington). He believes that if black men produce something white men want, "instead of all the dependence being on the other side, -- a change takes place in
the relations of the races" (Washington). History tells us that things didnt work out that way, that Southern whites couldnt have cared less how talented and innovative black workers were,
they were uninterested in them simply because they were black. Washington also has a rather peculiar view of slavery, saying that the Negro looked down on poor whites with contempt
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